iBubble Shooter now has nag screens, but can you really blame Absolutist?
Don’t get me wrong. I hate nag screens as much as anyone, but after playing the free version of iBubble Shooter for quite some time I’m can’t really blame them for trying to get me to upgrade. The...
View ArticlebbAggregate lets you mix and match WordPress content
When I first started using WPMU, the now-integrated multisite version of WordPress, I found it strange that there were no built-in tools to aggregate content onto the main blog. It seemed to me that...
View ArticleErratic behavior with Flash’s textWidth property
Just a quick post in case anyone else ever runs into this and manages to find their way to my blog.I just came across this in a client project I’m working on. I was using a TextField in Flash CS5, and...
View ArticleGetting my Flickr/Picasa widget working again with Picasa’s new feeds
Recently, Picasa started serving its RSS feeds over https. From what I can tell, this has caused quite a view “clients” to fail. Digital photo frames seem to be affected, and so is my Flickr widget....
View ArticleTaming wp_list_pages
Ever since pages got added to WordPress in version 1.5, wp_list_pages has been the way to get a list of pages. In the pre-widgets era, it used to be coded into pretty much every theme’s sidebar or...
View ArticleI’ll no longer be developing WP-Cumulus
It’s been well over a year since I last blogged about WP-Cumulus. In the mean time, there have been all sorts of developments. I’ve been in serious talks with a potential buyer. That didn’t work out....
View ArticleOpening links inside WordPress comments in a new window
A project I’m working on requires all links to external sites to open in a new browser window or tab. This is easy enough for regular content, but I’ll have to figure out a way to add a...
View ArticleIntroducing “Blocks 2015”
Yesterday, I blogged about the 5k Awards. I mentioned that I managed to find the “Blocks” project that Wouter de Jong and I entered, but that it didn’t work in modern day browsers. Of course, that was...
View ArticleGifloopcoder: create wonderful GIFs with math
A couple of weeks ago, Keith Peters (a.k.a. bit101) released Gifloopcoder. In short, “GLC” is a javascript-based coding environment for creating looping animations, and saving them as GIF files. A...
View ArticleMath problem: Why does this work?
A couple of days ago, I was playing around with Gif Loop Coder, and I set out to create an animation where a number of line segments would form a flower-like shape. You can see the effect above. To...
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